This Week in History:Sept. 29, 1997

On Sept. 29, 1997, Clifford W. Taylor was sworn in as the 100th justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Taylor was appointed by then-Gov. John Engler to replace the retiring Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley.
“His jurisprudence is strictly guided by the words — the text — of the Constitution,” Engler said of Taylor at the time. ...